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Carlos Areces

Spanish actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ2687792
Source-derived summary

Carlos Areces Maqueda (born 27 March 1976) is a Spanish actor, singer, and comics artist. He has performed in a number of television shows and in more than twenty films since 2002. He formed the musical duo Ojete Calor together with Aníbal Gómez.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Carlos Areces” as spanish actor. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Carlos, Areces and Spanish.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-03-27. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Carlos, Areces and Spanish providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Carlos Areces”, the useful work is to connect “spanish actor” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2687792. VIAF identifies the subject as 171448547. The Library of Congress control number is no2012147918. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976 and 2002.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from Carlos Areces” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.